I was having issues with writing the Cavgar story as I am having minor issues with trying to figure out the direction to go, so, for now, I will skip it and move on to the others. The Hyen tale is going to be a to parter for the first chapter so stay tuned for the second part coming soon.

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I hate this place, it’s always very hot outside, and crime plagues the streets. New people don’t last very long in Elgadurn, they usually get robbed murdered, or they become members of one of the gangs that are in this town. Once you join a gang to leave, you have to lose something import. The place I work at, the owner lost his wife before his eyes to a gang so that he could leave. He doesn’t say much now because he also lost his tongue. This place destroys lives, and I pray that I can leave with my sister before it destroys ours. We were young when our parents died when they went out to buy food, the place got attacked by a gang because there was another gang that owned the place, they were heavily injured, and later they both died to their wounds, nothing could save them. We had very little money and couldn’t pay for a cleric to heal them. That happened when I was nine years old and my sister was thirteen, its been seven years since then and I’ve been working very hard to save money to leave this place. I ask my sister Natalia when we will have enough money to leave this place, but she always says, “soon, Daniel, we will have enough. We must be patient things like this takes time”. I also ask where she works, and why she always comes home late at night or leaves very early, but a subject change avoids my questions. I am worried about my sister; I am afraid that this town is beginning too corrupt her. At dinner, while my sister heated some bread, I decided to say something.

”Sis, why can’t we leave this place yet? I’m sure with all the money we’ve saved we should be able to leave this place for good”.

“I know Daniel, we have saved a good amount of money, but we need to wait just a little bit longer,” she responded.

I got really mad when she said that, “A LITTLE BIT LONGER!” I shouted, “we have been in this hell hole for so long we lost mom and dad I don’t want to stay here any longer! I want to leave. I work so hard every day to get paid, what do you even do to get money?” At this point, I was beginning to cry a little.

“It’s complicated, Daniel I…Just… I can’t tell you, not yet, but we will leave soon, I promise.” She was going to say something else but hesitated and looked at the ground a little, averting eye contact. I began to cry

“I’m tired of these false promises I want to get away, I want to live somewhere with nice trees, where it rains a lot, and I can feel the grass between my feet, and not hot sand. I don’t want to stay here any longer”. My sister wrapped her arms around me as she was beginning to tear up too.

“I know Daniel I don’t like this place either, I will work hard tomorrow, and we can leave in two days and travel south-west to a place with nice trees, where it rains a lot, and we can feel grass between our feet, I promise you that.” my sister hugged me for a few minutes before we finished dinner and then went to bed.

The next day while I was at work, I made a plan to follow Natalia when she snuck out to find out what she does at night that requires me to be in the dark. When night befell the town, my sister got out of bed and slowly padded her way to the door and grabbed a cloak. I stayed in bed till I heard her leave through the tarp that made our door. I got out of bed and ran through the tarp and saw sis down the street, and I kept my distance as I followed her. It was dark and cold outside because Elgadurn is like that, freezing at night and boiling during the day. I don’t know what mom and dad saw in this place. It felt like I was following Natalia for ten minutes until I saw her walk to a big house with two guards outside the main doors. What was my sister doing outside a place like this? I wondered for a second until I got my answer. Natalia pulled out a scimitar and dagger and dashed fast towards the guards she was like a ghost making no sound as she glided on the ground, stabbing the dagger in her right hand into the upper part of the first guard's neck while slashing with the scimitar completely decapitating the other guard all in one swift motion. The sight was horrifying my sister killed someone, she killed someone, a guard too, why is Natalia doing something like why did she become a murderer. As I stood there paralyzed, Natalia jumped onto the side of the building and climbed through a window. It took me a few minutes to snap back to reality, but when I did I saw Natalia leaving through the same window she entered with a satchel which seemed filled with a lot of objects, she dashed off into the night again I mustered all the courage I could and ran after her.

After a few more minutes, I ended up following her to a giant mansion guarded by four big burly guards. She walked in without being hassled, she didn’t even try to fight them they seemed to know her, is this what my sister did? Murder people for money? Was she some assassin for this gang? I guess I got too into my thoughts because I didn’t notice a guard approaching behind me. The guard grabbed me by my neck and brought me inside. I struggled, but it didn’t matter; he was way too strong.” Look what I found snooping outside.” said the big rhino man as he brought me into a room with a bunch of scary-looking thugs, including my sister.
“Daniel,”??? my sister said very surprisedly and concerned at the same time.

“You know this kid”? said the big rhino.

“Yeah, I do he’s my brother, please put him down he’s harmless” my sister's voice sounded extremely worried.

“Well, if he followed you here, then he must have seen what you did as well, so how do I know he won't tell the guards”? said the Rhino, the other thugs in the room started snickering.

“trust me, Dani…” my sister's words were cut short when I felt a sharp pain shoot into my chest. I started to taste an iron flavoured liquid build up in my mouth, my back began to become damp, it started to get cold in the room I started to feel weak, and numb My sisters face was horrified, it felt like everything was slowing down, I tried to say something but the liquid filling up in my mouth made it very hard to speak, my sister was over me holding the back of my head, what was she trying to say I couldn’t make it out but she was covered in blood and crying a lot, was it her blood or the blood of the guards she killed? Weird I never saw any on her when she left that house.